Original Title: Adaptation.
Year: 2002
Genre:
Comedy, Drama
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,7 (DINO Rating: 7)
Country: USA
Language:
Director: Spike Jonze
Writer: Susan Orlean, Charlie Kaufman
Composer: Carter Burwell
Producer: Jonathan Demme, Charlie Kaufman, Vincent Landay, Peter Saraf, Edward Saxon
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gary Farmer, Peter Jason, Gregory Itzin, Curtis Hanson, Agnes NaDene Baddoo, Paul Fortune, Paul Jasmin, Lisa Love, Wendy Mogel, David O. Russell, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Stephenson, Bob Yerkes
Description: While his latest movie Biti Džon Malkovič (1999) is in production, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is hired by Valerie Thomas to adapt Susan Orlean's non-fiction book "The Orchid Thief" for the screen. Thomas bought the movie rights before Orlean wrote the book, when it was only an article in The New Yorker. The book details the story of rare orchid hunter John Laroche, whose passion for orchids and horticulture made Orlean discover passion and beauty for the first time in her life. Charlie wants to be faithful to the book in his adaptation, but despite Laroche himself being an interesting character in his own right, Charlie is having difficulty finding enough material in Laroche to fill a movie, while equally not having enough to say cinematically about the beauty of orchids. At the same time, Charlie is going through other issues in his life. His insecurity as a person doesn't allow him to act upon his feelings for Amelia Kavan, who is interested in him as a man. And ...
Comments:
Duration: 114 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: Z:\00261 - Adaptation (2002) [DVDRip]\Adaptation.avi
Filesize: 697 MB
Video: DivX 3 Low - resolution: 576x312
Audio:
Subtitles: Serbian